Sorry, Mark, if I crossed a line with you. I can argue tractors but not farmin'. When it comes to your ground and your crops, nobody on here, least of all me, knows any better than you do.
My reference to my BN cultivating year in and out is mostly with knee-high beans or corn, when they're big enough for you to whistle right through. But that was also on a quarter-section farm where there you could dig down three feet in places and still be in topsoil -- nothing like the kind of clay it sounds like you're working in.
As far as your oil pressure, I shouldn't be surprised if your gauge or the passages to it aren't gummed up. It won't free up the gauge, but a dose of a good treatment like Seafoam in the crankcase will help clean out the passages. If you're not concerned with keeping things original, you can pick up a gauge at your local auto parts for pretty reasonable that will thread right in place of the one you have, and read pressure in pounds to give you a better idea of whether you have oil pressure problems or not. My BN has an original-style gauge, but I put one with pound readings on it when I first fired it up after the rebuild, just to get a reading, then cleaned it up and packed it away in the drawer with my compression gauge for testing use in the future.
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